That’s the polite way for the Jets’ offensive tackle to say the Steelers linebacker is short.

“That’s why there’s that natural leverage. He’s just got it off the bat,” Hunter said of the 6-foot Harrison. “He doesn’t have to work for leverage. And he knows how to work to his strengths.”

Harrison and fellow outside linebacker LaMar Woodley are terrific power rushers who combined for 20½ sacks this regular season after tallying 23½ and a staggering 27½ in the previous two seasons.

This isn’t Dwight Freeney and Robert Mathis we’re talking about. The Steelers’ duo doesn’t rely on speed and moves the way the Colts’ rushers do. Harrison and Woodley are effort-and-power guys all the way. And in that regard, they’re ...

“The best duo in the league,” Hunter said.

KEYS TO THE MATCHUP
• Hunter and LT D’Brickashaw Ferguson must protect their armpits. Allow us to explain: Harrison has an outstanding move in which he rips under a tackle’s arm (in the pit area) and uses that zone to control the blocker and take a tighter route around him to the quarterback — as opposed to the Osi Umenyioras of the league who loop around on speed rushes.

• As for Woodley, his go-to move involves a powerful punch and reach. “He just has a strong, long arm,” Hunter said. “He goes up and gets it in the chest and drives back.” If all of this sounds basic, that’s because it is. “They do that move every time but it works every time. And I don’t know how,” Hunter said. “It’s hard to counter the moves they do.”

• Ordinarily, when you talk about edge pass rushers, you talk about the importance of tight ends getting a chip on those guys before running their routes. “Maybe not quite as much as a team like Indianapolis with their real quick guys coming off the edge,” TE Dustin Keller said. “But you definitely have to take into account where they are at all times.”

HOW IT WILL PLAY OUT
We don’t know if you’ve noticed, but Mark Sanchez has been sacked only twice in his past four games. That’s twice total.

One of those games was a one-sack performance against Pittsburgh in which Harrison and Woodley were shut out — thanks in part to Sanchez’s escaping Woodley on the second play of the game when the linebacker was somehow allowed to rush free off the edge. That’s a no-no right there against a guy who’s tough to keep away from the passer when he is blocked. The only sack that day was when Sanchez was dropped by James Farrior on a scramble — the play on which he hurt his throwing shoulder.

So Sunday, we think the Jets are well-equipped to keep Harrison and Woodley at bay, provided Sanchez continues to get the ball out of his hands quickly and OG Rob Turner does his job as an extra tight end the way he did to block Harrison on Sanchez’s 38-yard completion to Braylon Edwards last time around.

Just watch out for the Steelers’ using Harrison and Woodley on wide rushes and bringing a late blitz inside them, which they did to generate pressure and draw a holding penalty on one play.